Electrospun Nanofibrous Technology for Clean Water Production

This book covers the remarkable progress in the field of electrospun nanofibrous materials synthesis that has been made in recent years for clean water production. The goal is to offer comprehensive and substantial contents in each chapter, entailing the electrospinning principle, novel materials and methods, properties, characterization, and applications, such as adsorption, catalysis, and membranes. The book is instrumental in terms of showing the scale-up production of desired fibers that ensure the control of the structureproperties relationship for developing effective water treatment technologies. Every chapter ends with a special section for highlighting research challenges and breakthroughs, so that scientists can explore these opportunities and discover new directions for future developments. Material scientists, nanotechnologists, chemists, engineers, water specialists, and environmentalists will be inspired by the information on electrospun nanofibrous materials tobe found in the book. The wide variety of new ideas and recommended future reading will encourage early-career scientists working in this field to design new experiments and practices. The book is useful for college and university-level students enrolled in project courses in materials science and related fields.

Covers step-by-step the fundamentals from nanofibrous materials to new developments Serves as a reference book, with chapters contributed by international experts Makes generous use of tables, figures, graphs, bibliographies, and extensive references

Auteur

Rasel Das received his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya in 2015. His research interests include synthesizing and functionalizing nanomaterials for water purification in strengthening the food-water nexus. He is currently a Senior Postdoctoral Associate in Chemistry Department at Stony Brook University, NY, USA, and was a visiting researcher and Postdoc at Kyushu University. He was awarded the prestigious DAAD (Germany) and JSPS (Japan) postdoctoral fellowships. He is the author and editor of > 5 books. He has published over 60 articles in internationally renowned high-impact journals, including Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Review, Chemical Engineering Journal, Desalination, etc., and won the Elsevier-Atlas Award. He has several years of teaching experience at the University of Science and Technology Chittagong and the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Contenu

1. General Introduction.- 2. Principles and Materials of Electrospinning.- 3. Methods and Engineering of Electrospinning.- 4. 3rd Generation Electrospinning Nanofibers Synthesis with Leapfrogging Properties.- 5. Characterizations of Electrospun Nanofibers.- 6. Nanofibers for Water Purification as Adsorbent.- 7. Nanofibers for Water Purification as Catalyst.- 8. Nanofibers for Membrane Filtration.- 9. Electrospun Nanofibers for Oil/Water Separation.- 10. Electrospun Nanofibers for Distillation and Pervoporation.